tau

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ταῦ (taû).

• IPA^(key): /taʊ/, /tɔː/

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• Rhymes: -aʊ, -ɔː

tau (plural taus)

1. The letter Τ/τ in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
2. A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a St. Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol.
   • 1658: Nor shall we take in the mysticall Tau, or the Crosse of our blessed Saviour, which having in some descriptions an Empedon or crossing foot-stay, made not one single transversion. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 168)
3. (physics, dated) A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.
4. (physics) An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.
5. (biology) Tau protein, a type of protein that stabilizes microtubules in the human central nervous system, failures of which are associated with forms of dementia.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 263:

     Quite what that job is remains obscure, but one theory is that it is to stabilise another protein called tau, which is supposed in turn to keep in shape the tubular ‘skeleton’ of a neuron.

6. (finance) A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.
7. (mathematics, neologism) An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its radius, approximately 6.2831853071; equal to twice the value of pi. Often written τ.

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): kappa, vega

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

• (Greek letter): Previous: sigma. Next: upsilon

• tauon
• tauopathy
• tau lepton
• tau meson
• tau neutrino
• tau protein

• tau on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tau (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tau (protein) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• AUT, UAT, UTA, Uta, aut-

tau

1. to give

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtaw/
• Rhymes: -aw

tau f (plural taus)

1. Tau; the Greek letter Τ (lowercase τ).
2. Tav; the Hebrew letter ת‎.
3. (religion) A tau cross.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtau̯]

tau n

1. tau (Greek letter)

• tau in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• tau in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ταῦ (taû).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑu̯/, [ˈt̪ɑu̯]
• Hyphenation: tau

tau

1. tau (Greek letter)
2. tauon, tau (elementary particle)

For (1) in plural, only nominative case is used[1].

• -tua

• IPA^(key): /to/

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tau m (plural tau)

1. tau (Greek letter)
2. (physics) tau, tauon

• tauique

• “tau” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• tua

• to (in some dialects)

Middle Low German tô.

tau

1. (in some dialects) to

• taum
• taun
• taur

From Ancient Greek ταῦ (taû).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒu]
• Hyphenation: tau

tau (plural tauk)

1. tau (Greek letter)

Borrowed from Danish tøj.

• IPA^(key): /tʰøyː/
• Rhymes: -øyː

tau n (genitive singular taus, no plural)

1. fabric
2. clothing

tau m or f (invariable)

1. tau (Greek letter)

• tua

tau

1. Rōmaji transcription of たう

Ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *Cau

tau

1. person
2. human

tau

1. (second-person singular) dative form of tu.

• tahu
• تاهو‎

From Proto-Malayic *tahu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Chamic, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.

• IPA^(key): /tau/
• Rhymes: -au, -u

tau

1. Nonstandard spelling of tahu.

From Proto-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun (compare Malagasy taona, Malay tahun).

tau

1. year (time it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun)
2. year (time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body)
3. year (a period between set dates that mark a year)
4. year (scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity)
5. year (Julian year)
6. year (level or grade at school or college)

From Proto-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀuq (compare Malagasy tao, Malay taruh).

tau

1. to settle

From Proto-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.

tau (used in the form of mātau)

1. knowledge

tau (used in the form of mātau)

1. (stative) to know

From Proto-Malayic *tahu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Chamic, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.

tau

1. to know

From Proto-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

tau

1. year (time it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun)
2. year (time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body)
3. year (a period between set dates that mark a year)
4. year (scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity)
5. year (Julian year)
6. year (level or grade at school or college)

From Proto-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀuŋ (compare Malay tarung).

tau

1. fight

From Old Frisian twā. Compare Mooring North Frisian twäär, tou.

IPA^(key): /tau/

tau

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Heligoland, Sylt) two

From Old Norse tog (rope)

tau n (definite singular tauet, indefinite plural tau, definite plural taua or tauene)

1. a rope
2. (physics) tau lepton
3. tau (Greek letter)

• (rope): rep, reip

• ståltau
• taubane
• tauverk

tau

1. imperative of taue

• “tau” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• tog

From Old Norse tog (“rope”)

tau n (definite singular tauet, indefinite plural tau, definite plural taua)

1. a rope
2. (physics) tau lepton
3. tau (Greek letter)

• (rope): reip

• ståltau
• taubane
• tauverk

• “tau” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

tau m (plural taus)

1. tau (name of the Greek letter Τ, τ)

tau

1. lion

• IPA^(key): /tau/, [t̪au̯]

tau f (plural taus)

1. tau; the Greek letter Τ, τ
2. tauon (elementary particle)

• (tauon): tauón

• (Greek script letter names) letra; alfa, beta, gamma, delta, épsilon, dseda, eta, zeta, iota, kappa, lambda, mi, ni, xi, ómicron, pi, ro, sigma, tau, ípsilon, fi, ji, psi, omega ^{(Category: es:Greek letter names)}
• (leptons) leptón; electrón, muón, tau/tauón, neutrino electrónico, neutrino muónico, neutrino tauónico

tau

1. some

• nau

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “tau” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

tau

1. a dry measure, roughly equivalent to ten quarts or 1.25 pecks

From Proto-Polynesian *tau (compare Hawaiian kau, Maori tau, Niuean tau), from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀuq (compare Indonesian taruh, Malagasy tao, Malay taruh).

tau

1. fight

• IPA^(key): /ta.u/

tau class 9/10 (plural ditau)

1. lion

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [taw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [taw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [taw˧˧]

tau

1. Eye dialect spelling of tao, representing Central Vietnam Vietnamese.